Review of In the Same Breath (2021) by Owen Gleiberman for Variety — 31 Jan 2021
The film’s form is glancing, exploratory, open to the moment. Yet Nanfu Wang captures things that other documentaries leave out, like the private emotions bred by policies of neglect. And her theme, in the end, is larger than you think.
It’s that big governments failed to control the virus because their real investment was in controlling everything else.
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This review of In the Same Breath (2021) was written by Owen Gleiberman and published by Variety on 31 January 2021.
In the Same Breath has generally received positive reviews.
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